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...next time you set up an online account and are asked your pet's name, don't just say it's Max - one of the most popular dog names in the U.S. and one that a motivated hacker might guess. Say it's Xam2008...
...shift in age, more women who already have children - this really does paint a different picture of women having abortions than the way it's portrayed in popular culture," Jones says, in reference to the popular notion that unintended pregnancy happens to careless teens and college kids...
China's Premier, Wen Jiabao, is without a doubt the most popular figure in China's top leadership: a graying, grandfatherly standout in a crowd of wooden faces that rarely crack a smile, much less choke up on national television as Wen did after the May earthquake in Sichuan province. But this week, even the ever patient Wen must be wishing that someone else could take up his role as Beijing's mollifier in chief. On Sept. 22, the 62-year-old said he felt "extremely guilty" about the poisoned milk products that have killed four babies and sickened tens...
...predecessor's slick style. But Brown's deliberative approach has come to appear indecisive; his detail-heavy, poetry-free utterances have failed to connect with voters. He acknowledged these failings in his speech to the delegates. "I didn't come into politics to be a celebrity or to be popular," he said, adding, "Perhaps that's just as well...
...That kind of good fortune, divine or not, has helped Lula, 62, a former union leader, become the country's most popular President in half a century. Even without the oil find - which could make Brazil one of the world's largest crude producers - the economy is growing vigorously, and the nation's notorious social inequality is receding. What's more, Brazil is flexing a newfound diplomatic clout as the hemisphere's first real counterweight to the U.S. (Lula led the creation of a bloc of developing nations, the G-20, to thwart U.S. and European hegemony in global trade...